So I go into my Yahoo mail this morning as usual and check that I have 9 or so messages in my Inbox and 1 message in my Bulk Mail box. Yahoo does a pretty good job of separating the spam mail from the email that you want to read and dumps the Spam into the Bulk Mail box and the "good" email in the regular Inbox. I always go to the Bulk Mail box first so that I can hit the Check All/Delete buttons and go on about my day, starting with reading the "good" email.

Today the Bulk Mail message's subject line read as follows: Don't Let the IRS Seize Your Pay Check. Sounds pretty interesting and perhaps something I might need to check into. But the Sender line read as follows: big_jon82002@hotmail.com.

Which leads me to my question...if you're going to go to the trouble of spamming the entire Yahoo world, why don't you at least set yourself up in Hotmail with a better user name?

Who knows, maybe I would have been more inclined to read this if the sender was Michael.Milken@hotmail.com or Arthur.Anderson@Enron.com. But big_jon82002? Probably, most definitely not!